Hold Strong
A Novel
by Robert Dugoni; Jeff Langholz; Chris Crabtree
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Pub Date Jan 28 2025 | Archive Date Feb 11 2025
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Description
From Robert Dugoni, Jeff Langholz, and Chris Crabtree comes an epic and inspiring novel—based on true events—about love, heroism, and resilience during the darkest chapters of World War II.
Sam Carlson is a projectionist in small-town Minnesota, where fantasies unspool in glorious black and white—for him and for his sweetheart, college-bound math whiz Sarah Haber. When the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, Sam is sent to the Philippines and captured as a POW. Brutalized but unbroken by the Bataan Death March and POW camps, Sam is one of eighteen hundred starved and weakened prisoners herded into the cargo hold of a barbaric hell ship called the Arisan Maru, his survival doubtful.
Determined to use her math skills on the home front, Sarah is recruited to Washington, DC, into the covert field of code breaking. When Sarah intercepts a message about a Japanese convoy, the US Navy’s mission is clear: sink the Arisan Maru and send it to the bottom of the South China Sea. Now, the lives of the two young lovers are about to inadvertently collide in one of the most shocking acts of World War II.
Anchored in an extraordinary true story and breathlessly re-created, Hold Strong is a one-of-a-kind novel that explores faith, courage, survival, and coming home against insurmountable odds.
A Note From the Publisher
Dr. Jeff Langholz is an award-winning teacher and writer whose work has appeared in more than 250 media outlets, including the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, National Geographic, and the Economist. His adventures span five continents and include stints as a rice farmer in West Africa with the US Peace Corps, a Fulbright Scholar in South Africa, a salmon fisherman in Alaska, a tree farmer in Central America, and a professional mediator in New York. He lives along Monterey Bay in California with his wife, dog, and two semiferal cats.
Chris Crabtree teaches middle and high school English language arts and literature at Costa Rica International Academy in Guanacaste. Born in Indianapolis, Indiana, Chris and his wife, Vera, live in a rustic, rural town on the outskirts of Santa Cruz, Costa Rica.
Available Editions
EDITION | Other Format |
ISBN | 9781662516313 |
PRICE | $28.99 (USD) |
PAGES | 543 |